"Peter van Boheemen" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> We have been using the HP3000 as a web server since 1995. We started with
> the NCSA server, then moved to the OMI web server. Recently we have moved
> to the Apache web server. Since we did that we experience some problems.
> Most of the request to our web server will result in the execution of our
> WebQuery cgi program, which will perform our database queries and updates.
> A few times a day, probably when it is busy, the web server returns
> an 'Internal server error'. In the log file we see the reason for
> this:"Resource busy, try again: couldn't spawn child
> process: /WWW/WWW/httpd_1.3/cgi-bin/WebQuery"
>
> It looks like Apache invokes a time out, when then HP does not spawn a cgi
> process fast enough. We never experienced this problem with the OMI
server.
> Has anyone ever had this experience ?
> Any suggestions ?
> regards,
> Peter van Boheemen
> Wageningen University Library
> The Netherlands
>
Try enabling the server status, and see if that helps you to pinpoint the
problem. if you haven't done so already